it is easier to give in to supplementing when you have formula around to supplement with. The first few weeks of breast feeding are difficult, but once you get past that, its easy money.

It also isn't recommended to supplement a brand new baby while you are trying to establish breast feeding. Read up on it. Nipple confusion is a real issue. More milk comes out of a bottle's nipple with less effort. Babies are like anyone else and they want more for less effort (breast feeding is a lot of work for babies!) so they will begin to choose the formula over breast feeding which will cause you to make less milk which will frustrate the baby which will make you give into the bottle that much more.

Simple answer: if the formula ain't there, you won't use it.

Good luck! And congrats on being jobless!

Is .Tim .Horton's a donut place? Like .Dunkin .Donuts?

I had formula at my home from all the samples they gave me and I never supplimented. Never needed too......And besides you never know what kind of formula that your child will use. So if you do go out buying formula then dont' buy too much.

Yay for not working.....But I work in a thankless job too. They all are I think I have never worked in a job where I got thanked for anything.

.Yeah .Laura, .Tim .Horton's is a donut place...Its superrrrr huge here in .Canada.

.I really do have my heart set on breastfeeding, but .I just have ths fear in the back of my mind that .I'll have trouble with it, and she'll be hungry, and we'll be stuck at home with nothing to give her.I do intend on sticking with breastfeeding, but .I just keep having these fears.

I gave my daughter a bottle because i'ld try for hours with the breastfeeding and after a while she was screaming so hard she was going bright red and I was scared she was starving. It was a mistake because now i'm stuck giving her a bottle at least once a day, and i'm trying to wean her off by making her suck on the boob a little longer each day even though she's crying and frustrated before giving her some formula, and then pumping afterwards to try and stimulate more milk production. I wouldn't have had this problem now if I hadn't given in and given her a bottle at the time when it was so tough, now I barely have any milk in the evenings (when she gets a bottle) and it's really hard trying to put her back on the boob at that time. In the hospital people are probably going to push supplementing lots, but if you want to exclusively breastfeed stick to it and even though it will be really hard for the first while you won't have problems later on if you don't supplement. That said, if you have to give a bottle once a day it's not that big of a deal. It made me feel like crap at first, but the fact is through struggling so much with her I didn't get a chance to enjoy her and having some formula when it was really tough calmed us both down and made things a lot less stressful, and she is still on the boob for the rest of the day so it's okay. You should join a breastfeeding group, they can help a lot if you are having trouble. Also the hospital should have a lactation consultant who should be able to work with you, I know when I was in the hospital the one there sat with me for hours helping me and it made the hugest difference. I'm going to tell you, breastfeeding is by far the hardest thing i've ever done, harder than pushing my baby out, and every single day I was tempted to give up but i'm way too stubborn to have accepted failing at it and now i'm so glad I didn't give up. I always knew before I had to do it that it would be really hard, but I couldn't have imagined how hard it really is. But all babies and all mothers are different, some have less problems than others. Oh I went on a huge tangent, all you asked was if you should buy some formula just in case. Sorry. Anyways, good luck!

.Haha .Tanya, .I'm glad you went off on a tangent about it....At least .I have someone else's experiences to learn from.

.I can see how if .Rowan was screaming for hours you would want to give her a bottle...I mean, you can only try so hard, and if its just not working, and the baby's starving, what else are you supposed to do?

.That said, .I think .I'm not going to have any formula in the house unless .I end up in the same situation, with .Molly screaming for hours because she's hungry.I'll keep the hospital samples around, but .I think .I'm just going to avoid the temptation of giving up on breastfeeding if it gets too difficult.

Babies who get used to the bottle dont easily go back to the breats because it much more complicated to feed from the breast then the bottle the baby will get frustrated and give up......


P.S. Tim hortons coffee is addictive much more than dunkin' tell me the truth do they put drugs in there ..Lol....Everyone says so! Hehei worked at dunkin and trust me all coffee shops are sweat shops!